Hi just wanting to know if anyone on here has caught a elephant fish as my brother has caught one tonight down south island and just wanting to know if they are any good eating and do you just fillet them like any other fish? Any advice much appreciated thanks.

They are a weekly catch for me in Wellington, I don't actually rate them, a bit 'rubbery' for my liking. They are a shark, so to stop the amonia build-up, you need to take off all fins and gut the fish as SOON as possible. They are a TOP SCRAPPER!!! Long searing runs on light gear. Watch the spine, very nasty, got one through a gumboot and into my ankle years ago. They reach impressive sizes, most here are 3-4kg lately, but Stormbringer got a 9kg the other day which is the largest I have heard off ever.

As Capt. said above, we're a very important commercial species and still are to a degree. They have no bones - just soft cartilage which can be a paid if the fillet knife goes astray!